Museum of Obsolete Objects was created by the german Digital Agency Jung von Matt/Next .

Sadly, as our daily lives become more and more digital some things fall by the way side as they are replaced by newer, «better» devices.
Let us not forget those fallen appliances, tools and gadgets and relive those bygone times by taking a visit to The Museum of Obsolete Objects. Step inside to step back in time!

Artist Kyle McDonald has created software which photographs people using public computers as part of his project ‘People Staring At Computers.’

McDonald’s ‘photographic intervention’ took place after he installed the software on public computers around New York – including the Apple store – over three days. Taking a photo every minute, the application collected over a thousand photos of people at the targeted computers. Before posting the results on the project’s Tumblr page, the artist displayed the shots back to the unsuspecting photo-subjects using another custom-built application.
McDonald explains:

I decided to exhibit them in the same places they were originally captured. So I wrote another app that could be remotely triggered after being installed on all the computers in one location. When the app starts up, it takes a picture and slowly fades in that photo. A moment later, it starts cycling through older photos.

Most people instinctively quit the app less than 10 seconds after recognizing their own face, so the exhibition was relegated to the unused machines.

McDonald set up shop in a New York City Apple Store to snag all these pictures.

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Robot Flâneur is a project made by London-based writer and programmer James Bridle, which claims to be an explorer for Google Street View. It allows you to virtually stroll the streets of nine different world cities. The website tends to re-examine Charles Baudelaire’s concept of the flâneur — a person who walks the city in order to experience it. The urban street views that are presented change every 30 seconds, so the only thing you have to do is lay back and passively explore the urban atmosphere.

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Would be useful to use on so many other subjects.

Humble Pied, is an online platform with a simple but useful quest:  one inspiring creative shares one piece of advice, over iChat.

The Future of Art an immediated autodocumentary

What are the defining aesthetics of art in the networked era? How is mass collaboration changing notions of ownership in art? How does micropatronage change the way artists produce and distribute artwork? The Future of Art begins a conversation on these topics and invites your participation.

Remixing is a folk art but the techniques involved — collecting material, combining it, transforming it — are the same ones used at any level of creation. You could even say that everything is a remix.
In this serious of four documentaries Kirby Ferguson, show us that remixing isn’t new. It has a long history, going back as long as we’ve been making art.